#2523: Born Again Driver

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Elsa learned to drive as a 15-year-old but she's been bumming rides around Iowa City ever since. Now she's 70 and she thinks she can just hop back behind the wheel and it'll all come back to her. Will Click and Clack have enough time to warn Elsa's neighbors to stay inside for a few weeks while she tests her theory? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	A lot happens in Washington every day, from the White House to Capitol Hill and everywhere in between.
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0:35.6	Thank you. Politics Podcast. Listen wherever you listen. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack to Tappert
0:39.6	Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Department of Updates here at Carat Talk
0:44.0	Plaza.
0:44.7	Now, here's a little update on an old issue that resurfaced due to a report broadcast a few weeks
0:49.9	ago by CBS.
0:51.8	What does CBS stand for in a complete...
0:53.8	No, no, no, no.
0:54.9	Columbia Broadcasting.
0:57.6	Some of you, long-time listeners,
0:59.3	remember that several years ago,
1:00.7	we made some untoward comments about Chrysler Corporation.
1:05.6	Which time are you referring to?
1:07.9	Well, at that time, we were talking about the real latches on their minivans.
1:11.8	Oh, yeah, those comments.
1:12.7	I think my brother, that would be Raymond.
1:15.6	He said something about how people were being thrown out of Chrysler minivans in all directions,
1:19.9	out the back, through the front, out the hood, on the roof.
1:23.0	He exaggerated, I would, I admit, he exaggerated a little bit.
1:27.0	I don't think it was I who said that.
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